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...nightly saturnalia at Stonewall produce protests that would kick start the modern gay-rights movement? The uprising was inspirited by a potent cocktail of pent-up rage (raids of gay bars were brutal and routine), overwrought emotions (hours earlier, thousands had wept at the funeral of Judy Garland) and drugs. As a 17-year-old cross-dresser was being led into the paddy wagon and got a shove from a cop, she fought back. "[She] hit the cop and was so stoned, she didn't know what she was doing--or didn't care," one of her friends later told...
...World Trade Organization's Seattle conference and sent the WTO's leadership hightailing it back to Geneva without what they came for: an agreement for a new round of closed-door negotiations on global trade rules. An expert at a progressive think tank in Washington described it as "a kick in the groin of the ruling class...
...piled high with pure fruit purees, Madagascar vanilla beans, Valrhona cocoa, Italian pistachios, spices, even flowers. And these exotic ingredients from faraway places are thrown into suggestive creations such as "raspberry nipple," "chocolate ecstasy" and "volcanic pistachio." His most unusual flavor? The zingy lemon-pepper, which has a delightful kick. So popular is Ackler's ice cream that it's on the menu at many top Hong Kong eateries, and several independent markets sell it by the kilo. "When I first started, I figured I would eat it myself if no one else wanted any," says Ackler, who looks more...
...even communicate - most of the soldiers speak only Turkish, and the locals just Kurdish and Arabic. "We don't like them, the Turkish government is the most brutal in the world," said one resident, Fadhil Tomar. "After the war, if they don't leave the peshmerga will come and kick them out." At that, a pickup sped up with a couple of Turkish soldiers and a Kurdish-Turkish translator. We were asked to leave...
...major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...